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Pedantic: Jonas Salk didn't actually cure polio.  Vaccines don't cure the disease, they just build up the body defences so you don't GET it in the first place.  Which is even more badass than a cure.

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE

One of the better, more nuanced articles on hydraulic fracturing I've seen yet ( Read more... )

Only 2 years too late ( Read more... )

This item on my bucket list officially reached the fuckit list* as of two days ago. Thankfully it's the kind of thing that will need a lot of advance planning, and also it's good that I'm offshore and can't answer the call to go haring off to the end of the world in the middle of winter ( Read more... )

I'm going hiking in Chilean Patagonia and then bopping around the Falklands in summer of 2012-2013.

Who wants to come?

My friend S' husband works at a television station in a large metropolitan area in a (2nd) large(st) state.

Last week, he and his coworkers were told in no uncertain terms that they were no longer to refer to the governor as Governor Goodhair on air.

It's a crying shame, really.

On the subject of some people we both know and do not care for ( Read more... )

Back in Louisiana, on the Enterprise.  Awww yeah.

Boldly going out into the gulf of Mexico, and we will be just as boldly coming right back with our tails between our legs if Miss Emily goes west instead of north.

Despite a day that was 75% wonderful (the rest was mostly my family being family), and thoroughly enjoying summer in Austin, I've started to get the southern hemisphere twitch again.

Air New Zealand has a fare sale...about $1200 R/T from LA to Auckland.  The catch?  It's for travel between the 10th and 31st of AUGUST.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

No.

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Symphony #7 in A Major, 2nd Movement (Allegretto).  This is the background music during the wartime radio broadcast in The King's Speech.

Enjoy.

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